Edward Young Quotes

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Edward Young

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

Edward Young

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

Edward Young

Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.

Edward Young

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

Edward Young

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Edward Young

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

Edward Young

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Edward Young